"Old ideas" - Leonard Cohen's new album

«En vieillissant, j'ai commencé à comprendre que cette voix était accompagnée d'instructions. Et les instructions étaient celles-ci... ne jamais se plaindre avec désinvolture. Et si l'on exprime la grande défaite inévitable qui nous attend tous, cela doit être fait dans les limites strictes qu'imposent la dignité et la beauté.» Leonard Cohen

Show me the place where you want your slave to go
Show me the place I've forgotten I don't know
Show me the place for my head is bending low
Show me the place where you want your slave to go
Show me the place help me roll away the stone
Show me the place I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the Word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began
The troubles came I saved what I could save


A thread of light, a particle, a wave
But there were chains so I hastened to behave
There were chains so I loved you like a slave
Show me the place where you want your slave to go
Show me the place I've forgotten I don't know
Show me the place for my head is bent and low
Show me the place where you want your slave to go


The troubles came I saved what I could save
A thread of light, a particle, a wave
But there were chains so I hastened to behave
There were chains so I loved you like a slave
Show me the place
Show me the place help me roll away the stone
Show me the place I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began

I caught the darkness
It was drinking from your cup
I caught the darkness
drinking from your cup
I said, Is this contagious?
You said, just drink it up

 

I’ve got no future
I know my days are few
Ah, the present’s not that pleasant
just a lot of things to do
I thought the past would last me
but the darkness got that too

 

I should have seen it coming
It was right behind your eyes
You were young and it was summer
I just had to take a dive
Winning you was easy
but the darkness was the prize

 

I don’t smoke no cigarettes
I don’t drink no alcohol
I ain’t had much loving’ yet
but that’s always been your call
Hey, I don’t miss it baby
I got no taste for anything at all

 

I used to love the rainbow
and I used to love the view
I loved the early morning
and I pretended it was new
But I caught the darkness, baby
And I got it worse than you

 

I caught the darkness
it was drinking from your cup
I caught the darkness
drinking from your little cup
I said, is this contagious?
You said, just drink it up

 

 

"Old ideas": exclusive album stream